Are educational games a fata morgana?
I thought we were over the games are only good for entertainment but then I bump into (game) researchers that insist that games are only good for fun… They don’t see any proof that games can learn. I...
View ArticleGALA Summer School on Serious Games
From the web-site “Join the GALA Summer School on Serious Games at Tampere University of Technology, Pori department, the city of Pori, Finland on July 21-25, 2014! A jam-packed and active five-day...
View ArticleNew Collection on Learning, Education and Game design
I haven’t had a chance to read the volume yet but the is an area that definitely needs more attention. A lot of research focus on the effect of learning games, and too few try and share good practice...
View ArticleShallow Gamification
It is rare that gamification is treated with serious research scrutiny and this is a very interesting study. It basically looks at whether ‘just’ framing something as a game experience will have a...
View ArticleI don’t want to play – leave me alone with my iPad
A new study from the Children’s Council was released over Easter – it basically sent a survey to children in 100 Danish kindergartens and asked of their preference towards iPads (along with follow-up...
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Shallow and deep gamification
If you haven’t already had the pleasure of reading Andreas Lieberoth’s paper on gamification (who he recently defended as part of his PhD – congrats!)… Be sure to give it a look. It provides a nice...
View ArticleCall for paper
In this issue of eLearningPapers we want to explore different approaches and models that spark creative potential of people and bring together interdisciplinary teams to collaborate and produce applied...
View ArticleGame Impact Reports
Just go to show how busy one can be – interesting report on the Games-for-Change space “For this project, we ambitiously seek to get at the “big picture” for social impact games. Our deep goal is to...
View ArticleNew Book: Games-To-Teach or Games-To-Learn
New book out “The book presents a critical evaluation of current approaches related to the use of digital games in education. The author identifies two competing paradigms: that of games-to-teach and...
View ArticlePoverty game – not working
Interesting article on why it is not so simple to make serious games, and that underlines the importance of thinking hard about what message your game mechanics delivers.. remember games are about...
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